Site Reliability Engineer Intern

RippleMatch, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 34,440,000 - 55,104,000; Full time

Job summary

CarGurus invites you to join its Summer Internship as a Site Reliability Engineer in Boston, combining hands-on projects with mentorship. The 11-week program runs June through August 2027, with a hybrid work model requiring about three days per week at the Boston office.

You will design and deploy observability tools, help scale telemetry and logs, and work with SREs to improve incident response while learning industry best practices in production environments.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field with eligibility for a full-time internship.
• Hands-on Linux experience (Linux CLI).
• Familiarity with AWS or another cloud platform.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or shell scripting.
• Familiarity with Docker and interest in Kubernetes.
• Interest in incident response procedures and working in production environments.
• Strong collaboration and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain and deploy observability systems across the stack.
• Scale observability across 200+ engineers and hundreds of services.
• Collaborate with SREs to refine incident response and postmortems.
• Promote best practices across the engineering organization.

Skills

Linux CLI

AWS cloud

Python/Java/Go/Shell

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD (Jenkins/Concourse)

Networking concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Concourse

Terraform

AWS

Python

Go

Java

Shell

Job description

Role overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will join an 11-week Summer Internship Program designed to give you hands-on experience, expand your professional network, and build core industry skills. This full-time opportunity (40 hours per week) runs from June through August 2027. CarGurus operates on a hybrid working model, and candidates should expect to work out of our Boston, MA office 60% of the time (approximately three days per week).

What you'll do

• Design, implement, maintain and deploy observability-related systems that cover the full stack: Application & infrastructure telemetry, Application & infrastructure logs, Metric visualization platforms, Alerting management
• Help scale how our organization observes and operates across 200+ engineers and hundreds of services and artifacts, producing over 125 million log events and 4 million time series metrics per day
• Team up with SREs to refine observability needs regarding incidents and postmortems
• Educate and promote best-practices throughout the engineering organization

What you'll bring

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, with eligibility to complete a full-time internship.
• Hands-on Linux experience (familiarity with the linux CLI)
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services or another cloud platform
• Familiarity with scripting or development in either Python, Java, Go, or shell
• Familiarity with containers (Docker) and interest in Kubernetes
• Familiarity or interest working in critical production environments
• Familiarity or interest in incident response procedures and operations
• A highly motivated individual that is willing to learn and has good collaboration skills
• You have a special passion for software engineering, are willing to innovate and move quickly
• Bonus: Familiarity with Terraform or another cloud orchestration tool
• Bonus: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or Concourse
• Bonus: Familiarity with IP network routing, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls

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